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November 06, 2018 —This week Jamie Sumner, chief analyst, reviews the 3Q 2018 performance of the community bank benchmark
group. Overall the benchmark group showed an improvement in ROAA of 4 bps to 1.18%.
This improvement in ROAA stems from the widening net interest margin, which hit 3.84%,
and the reduction in over provisioning expense, down over 3.5%. The increases in ROAA
was complemented by an overall level of risk that has been somewhat stable throughout
the past 12 months. An important item of note is that the growth in aggregated loans
came in under 1% for the 3Q, a level not seen since 2013. Additionally, the level of
cash-type deposits to total deposits fell for the second quarter in a row suggesting
that these lower cost deposits could be moving into the CD portfolios.

RECENT BRIEFINGS

October 30, 2018

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October 30, 2018 —This week Jamie Sumner, chief analyst, reviews the advance estimate of
the 3Q 2018 GDP, September inflation and the current Fed Funds implied probabilities for the next
12 months. The 3Q GDP came in at a growth rate of 3.5%, which was slightly higher than the median
forecast. The consumer segment continues to be strong. The strength in the consumer segment was c
omplemented by the replenishment of inventories which contributed 203 bps to the overall growth
rate. However, the next of exports and imports detracted from the growth rate by 178 bps, as
the reduction in exports compounded the impact of the increase in imports. As for inflation,
it remains in the target range. As such, the Fed Funds implied probabilities show two to three
rate hikes over the next 12 months.

October 09, 2018

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October 09, 2018 —This week Jamie Sumner, chief analyst, reviews the jobs report for September and the ISM manufacturing and
non-manufacturing reports. Overall, the big news was the 50k upward revision to the August jobs creation to 254k. However, for
September the job growth was 121k jobs, the lowest since September 2017, which was low due to the impact of hurricane Harvey.
Change in hourly earnings remained fairly steady at an increase of 2.8% over the past year, thus showing no significant jump in
wages. Although, the unemployment rate did fall by two-tenths of a percent in September to 3.7%. As for the ISM indices, both the
manufacturing and non-manufacturing indices point to continued expansion of our economy.

October 02, 2018

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October 02, 2018 —This week Jamie Sumner, chief analyst, reviews Fed Statement and newly released projections
including the Dot Plot. Furthermore, Jamie compares the market’s implied fed rates with the dot plot to point out how
different they are. Lastly, Jamie covers the inventories report which points to stronger than expected inventory builds
and while overall construction spending was little changed from July.